Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-01-01
NEWS IN Brief

NEWS IN Brief
Subterraneous detonations continue in the
egion of Summerville, S. G.
AtMurphys boro, H., the trial of the three
Hick sms for murC er is In progress.
Charles Brown, brakeman, lost his life
BY q railway accident at Plano, Tex.
A vein of gold is said to have been dlscov-
cred near Spring Hill. Livingston county,
Mo.
VIM. Schultz, farmer, who resided near
Cataw bs, Mo-, was kicked to death by q
vicious horse.
II p. Forwood, former well-known cot
ton merchant of Louisville, KY, has been
adjudged insane.
The treasury department has issued in
= sitter certificates 100000 in twos and
$6,300, eco in ones.
RS-Gov. Pierce, of Dakota. has accepted
the portion of associate editor of the st.
Paul Pioneer Press.
The Salvation army is having a rough
time at Sedalia, the procession having been
egged by the hoodlums.
The Paris Temps ard the Liberte deny
that either France or Germany have any in
1 tention to 60 to war.
Twelve persons were injured in railroad
accident on the Asheville and Spartanburg
road, near Asheville, N. q.
A Baltimore dispatch reports the insol-
vency of Martin D. Bapks, q furniture deal
er, with liabilities of SEC, 600.
The sheriff at Hot Springs, Ark, raided
every gambling establishment in town and
burned the tables and chips in the street.
Five hundred jugs of whisky were taken
into Atlanta by enc train. Private residen-
ces are said to shelter more liquor than was
ever before known.
The body of Miss Hull, of Carlisle, L.,
was recently taken from the cemetery. A
deputy sheriff vaiply searched the medical
colleges at Des Moines.
The contest for the circuit judgeship be-
tween Shields, democrat, and McGregor,
republican of Nevada, Mo-, has been decid-
ed in fsvor of McGregor.
Leading steamboatmen of New Orleans
agree in the opinion that no more large
boats with costly cabins will be built for
the lower Mississippi trade.
J. l.. Phillips, a job printer, Of Spring
field, ILL.,, has been recommended to Cover
{ NOR Oglesby by the trades assembly as one
Of the peniteDtiary commissioners.
A major, four captains and three lieuten-
ante have resigned from the Seventh regi-
ment in Kansas City, Mo-, because Of i'll
feeling towards Colonel Hunt.
Aman named Jacques, employ ed in silk
factory in London, made an attempt to fast
for q prolonged period, but yielded to the
temptation of hot bIea kfast on the twenty
&rst day.
Daniel Pine, who WAS born within q few
Yards of the old state house at Bosom, cele-
brated bis centennial birthday at Paw Paw,
Illinois, in the presence of four generations
Of his family.
The British IRON clad Sultan dragged her
anchor in the river Tapgus, at Lisbon, and
drifted against the FfeEch steamer Vile de
Victoria, sinking the latter, with forty of
her passengers and crew.
The impending strike of twelve thousand
ooke-workers in the Connellsville region of
Pennsylvania has been averted by compro-
mise; wages having been advanced to a
slight degree.
Car Mussfeldt, one of the Milwaukee riot
ems whose sentence was recently suspended
by Judge Sloan on promise of good be-
havior, was again arrested for a brutal as
sault upon his father.
Frank D. Meyers, a forger from Hcrnells-
vile. New York, who jumped his bail and
Red to Chicago, escaped being sent back
because he had not signed the bailpiece. |
He wes at once re-arrested.
Sarah M. Victor, for several years an in |
mate of the Ohio penitentiary on a life SEN
tence for poisoning her brother to obtain |
insurance, will be psrdoned by Governor
Foraker, because of her i'll health.
John Henneberry, having been dismissed
from the Chicago police for drunkenness,
deuoe on West Thirteenth street His wife
claims that the affair was an accident.
A number of young professional and bus
elaborate dinner on Christmas at the state
hospital IN Vicksburg. costing them several
hundred dollars, and Rlhddened the hearts
Of the many unfortunate inmates.
The commissioner of the general land Of
Ace recommends that proceedings be COM
nenoed to compel the removal of fences IN
hvfully enclosing public lands il New Mex
,oo, amounting to 1885, 900 acres. Six COM
psnies have that amount of land enclosed.
Among the appointments sent to the SEN
ste were the following from Kansas: Collec-
or OF internal revenue, Nelson +. Acers;
postmssters-Frank Cummings, Ashland;
k.P. Bancroft, Manksto; John Boetorf,
New Kiowa; G. w. Moore, Pleasanton; w.
r Cannon, Norton.
Near Ash Grove, twenty miles northwest
II Springfield, Mo-, while N. P. Collier was
under the influence of religious excitement, ,
% struck rhos. Todd on the head with an
ase, INJECTING wound that is said to be ia
sal Collier was placed under arrest.
The Floyd County Savings bank at
Charles City, Iowa, has been seized by the
sheriff on an attachment sued out by the
directors against Cashier Rossine, who is :
lhareed with taking 10000 and ascending
10 Europe. !.
At q farm house near Blair, Nebraska, an q
unknown man fired shotgun through q 9
window and killed 81. Buftauschon at the 8
uppef- table. The assassin Shcn broke In Il
lrunt door and Struggled for some time 4;